The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
ADYASHANTISilence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
More Adyashanti Quotes
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Our own intuition of what we’re called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.
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The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
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As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.
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It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves.
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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
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If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple.
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Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.
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All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.
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The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.
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When you get out of the driver’s seat, you find that life can drive itself, that actually life has always been driving itself. When you get out of the driver’s seat, it can drive itself so much easier-it can flow in ways you never imagined.
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What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.
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The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things.
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You lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.
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It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
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This world is not my concern; it is myself.
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